Tires - rotational direction ??

Always follow the arrows, go with the flow... 😄

you need good tire grip for non flat surfaces
and when you brake with rear brakes
i have bad rear tires so when i brake they slide for a feet or two...

i use geax and they have "speed <----> traction" on them for rolling direction, so that may give you an idea about other tyres and their "direction" for rolling. one way grips more and the other rolls faster.

[font=Comic Sans MS]I was reading an interesting article on the research and development of mtb tyres, and boy do these guys put a lot of time and effort into tyre design, road, offroad, sand, gravle mud, wet mud and then the combination off ridding, gravle and road, gravel and mud, gravle and sand the tests were endless.[/font]

[font='Times New Roman'][font=Comic Sans MS]I feel after all that,the decent thing to do is put on the tyre in the right rotating direction.😄 [/font][/font]

Experiment. Some tires, in some conditions actually work better backwards.

J

xcmntgeek said:

Experiment. Some tires, in some conditions actually work better backwards.

J

+1...depends on the tire

Rule of thumb is to always follow the mfg recommendation, however, some of us to prefer to run the front tire backwards if it is the same pattern as the rear...makes for an faster rolling tire. (some mfg recommend that you do this)